MORAVIA - For 40 years, the Four Town First Aid Squad, Inc. has served the community, providing medical services for any and all who live in Moravia, Locke, Niles, Sempronious and Summerhill. This weekend, about 40 people decided to show their appreciation and give back.

The Piecemakers Quilt Guild in Moravia is holding its first quilt show at the Four Town squad house this weekend, displaying more than 60 quilts made mostly by guild members and antique quilts on loan from local community members.

They are also raffling off a blue and yellow queen size quilt. The cost is $1 for one ticket and $5 for six. The guild and Four Town will be selling tickets up to Sept. 2. All of the money raised will go to Four Town. The winner will be drawn on Sept. 2 at the Four Town squad house, located at 90 S Main St., Moravia, following the annual car show at Fillmore Glen State Park.

“We're just hoping to raise money for them, for a really great cause,” said Linda Plunkett, of Summerhill, co-president of the guild.

Plunkett said that the guild alone has raised $800 before the quilt show. They are looking to raise about $2,000.

Four Town is a primarily volunteer-based ambulance corps comprised of about 40 members, according to Heather Potter, a Four Town board member, Junior Corps advisor, ambulance driver and training Emergency medical technician. Four Town responds to all calls - whether or not the person in need of medical services can afford it, she said.

Potter said that she was “absolutely honored” to be the beneficiary of the guild's fundraiser.

“It's just nice,” she said. “They say what goes around comes around. We work for the community. We don't come back to the squad and praise ourselves. It comes back as this.”

Four Town is funded by donations, memorials and fundraisers, she said.

“Without (the fundraiser) they can't keep going. They do a lot for this community,” said Kathy Fick, guild program planner. “They need us and we need them and that's just the way it is.”

Florence Lansdowne of Summerhill became interested in quilting from her mother-in-law, Edith Lansdowne. On Saturday, she and her daughter-in-law, Kathy Lansdowne of Floyd, came to check out the other quilts on display and support Four Towns.

“They are the ones we call in an emergency,” Florence Lansdowne said, who loaned one of her mother-in-law's quilts to the guild for the show. “They always come - you can give them what you can afford, there is never a set price - they have really highly trained people. And they need all the help they can get.”

Nancy Weaver of Moravia is just as supportive of the guild as she is of Four Town.

“They (quilt) because they love it,” she said, “but then they're here today when they could have been doing something else.”

The fundraiser for Four Town is not the guild's first foray in community service. The guild quilted for Hurricane Katrina victims and they made 700 pillow covers for Dream Factory Inc., a not-for-profit dedicated to fulfilling dreams for critically and chronically ill children. Currently they are looking to quilt school bags for Church World Service, a humanitarian assistance agency working in the area of hunger and disaster relief.

“We're just a caring bunch of people,” Plunkett said. “They just want to do things to help others and we are always looking for ways to do this.”

Staff writer Alyssa Sunkin can be reached at alyssa.sunkin@lee.net or 253-5311 ext. 239